Today while attempting to deploy some Windows Server 2012 servers from a template, I noticed they did not go through the image customization as I would expect. After some searching, I came across a thread that had the answer:KB: 2037366 Guest OS customization of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 may […]
In designing our Lync 2010 environment, I was a bit beside myself at the scale of the number of required servers to deploy a simple, yet redundant, environment. Even cutting a few corners, we ended up with 13 servers for our Lync pilot. Using the same design in Lync 2013, […]
At Citrix Synergy Barcelona several announcements were made regarding Project Avalon. The first tech preview will be available November 1st, which is set to unify XenDesktop, XenApp and other components and reduce from 22 consoles to two – Director and Studio. Synergy TV has the replay of the Project Avalon […]
If you’re having trouble using VMware vCenter Converter 5.0 to migrate VM’s with a 5.1 host or vCenter, you’re in luck. vCenter Converter 5.0.1 has been released with support for vCenter/ESXi 5.1. Unfortunately, VMware has not yet decide to support this application fully, as explained in the release notes. What’s […]
A question came up in #Citrix on Freenode about how to filter network packets on a per-user basis with a XenApp session. I remembered reading about the feature, so I went digging about it and found that it is possible and relatively painless. The feature assigns an individual IP address […]
Today I noticed one of my event logs was flooded with events that I had not seen before upgrading to VMware tools 5.1. VMware so kindly describes it as such in KB 2036350, shown below. *Update* This issue is resolved in Patch ESXi510-201212402-BG. To download this patch see, VMware ESXi 5.1., Patch […]
Recently I ran into an issue no Citrix XenDesktop or XenApp admin wants to face – license exhaustion. Users were having trouble logging in. At first glance, it wasn’t quite clear why, either. We had 45 Virtual desktops powered on and ‘ready’, only 22 were ‘In use’, and only 16 […]
VMware has published information about upgrading to 5.1 and the required length of host certificates. In my case, I verified before hand that my certificates were the appropriate length so I proceeded, but as it turns out, my vCenter certificates were not the proper length. Our vCenter was installed first […]
Depending on organizational or technical requirements, you may have a need to replace the default certificates for vCenter or ESXi. This is easily accomplished once you understand the process. Create a private key Create a certificate request Obtain the certificate from a certificate authority Convert the certificate to PFX format […]
*Update* vCenter Converter 5.0.1 is available, but not fully supported. For those of you looking to upgrade to 5.1, be aware that the very important Converter tool is not supported when targeting vCenter 5.1. When trying to direct it to a vCenter 5.1 instance you will see the following message: Converter Standalone […]